Tonight: Parenting author on “The gift of Failure”
Posted on September 30, 2015 by Sonoma Valley Sun
Jessica Lahey, the parenting author and “New York Times” columnist, discusses her book “The Gift of Failure: How The Best Parents Learn To Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed,” on Monday, October 5.
Today’s young adults, she reasons, have lived a sheltered, “failure-deprived” life, and can’t function in a world that’s sometimes cold or cruel or indifferent. Instead, she tells parents and educators to guide children to find autonomy, with occasional and requisite failures, so they become resourceful and resilient adults.
Monday, October 5. $20. 6:30 p.m. Presentation School, 20872 Broadway, Sonoma. Presentationschool.com
